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ironhak

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Registered: 2025-08-10

Posts: 71

GTK config not working - xsettingsd alternatives for Wayland

Hello I had a problem where in certain gtk video playerr apps if I clicked the progress bar then, instead of the video jumping at that location it would just skip 10 seconds ahead. And also there's no icons on contextual menus, even if I set that option to true trough lxappearance and nwg-look.

I found that there's

gtk-primary-button-warps-slider=true

So I inserted it:

$ cat .config/gtk-4.0/settings.ini 
[Settings]
gtk-primary-button-warps-slider=true
gtk-theme-name=Redmond97 SE Ouroboros
gtk-icon-theme-name=Obsidian-Aqua
gtk-font-name=Consolas 11
gtk-cursor-theme-name=elementary
gtk-cursor-theme-size=0
gtk-application-prefer-dark-theme=0
...

The problem is that this wont work, for whatever reason... So I installed xsettingsd and applied the modification there:

$ cat .config/xsettingsd/xsettingsd.conf 
Net/ThemeName "Redmond97 SE Ouroboros"
Net/IconThemeName "Obsidian-Aqua"
Gtk/CursorThemeName "elementary"
Gtk/FontName "Consolas Regular 11"
Net/EnableEventSounds 0
EnableInputFeedbackSounds 0
Xft/Antialias 1
Xft/Hinting 1
Xft/HintStyle "hintslight"
Xft/RGBA "rgb"
Gtk/PrimaryButtonWarpsSlider 1
Gtk/MenuImages 1
Gtk/ButtonImages 1

Now everything works as intended! Both video slider and icons on menus! But my question is: when I'll migrate to wayland, how will I achieve the same results since xsettingsd is not available on wayland?

Thanks